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PETA’s recent track of insane, attention-grabbing remarks and opinions remind me way too much of this
So far they’re up there with radical feminists, but they’re approaching the link’s level of batshit insane alarmingly fast

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Not only that, I’m quite amused by the whole grimdark art style in general. It may be due to my love of grimdark stylization like Warhammer 40k but I think Pokemon should use that blood-&-beartrap theme for their next Halloween title

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Now this really fucking disturbs me. I have a 7 year old brother, who often browses google for Pokemon. Now think, how hard would it be for an 8 year old to google Pokemon, and come across this? Little kids have no idea. They see Black and Blue, the cartoony style, the cool looking Pikachu, and they’ve seen new Pokemon game commercials, and then what happens? The poor kids are scarred for life from the “bonus video” and the bloodthirsy trainers.

Now I don’t commonly get this aggravated (or use the Fucking word online out of spite) about stuff like this, but thinking about all the psychological harm this organization would cause to a little boy just looking for a game. It makes me sick.

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And that’s why I hate PETA. Pokémon has been around for 20 years or whatsoever. And NOW they go against it? If Pokémon teached me something is to treat your friends and pets well.
I mean where the idea that Pokémon is cruel to animals came from? They went against Battlefield 3 too, because… You stabbed a rat… Really.

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Now this really fucking disturbs me. I have a 7 year old brother, who often browses google for Pokemon. Now think, how hard would it be for an 8 year old to google Pokemon, and come across this? Little kids have no idea. They see Black and Blue, the cartoony style, the cool looking Pikachu, and they’ve seen new Pokemon game commercials, and then what happens? The poor kids are scarred for life from the “bonus video” and the bloodthirsy trainers.

Now I don’t commonly get this aggravated (or use the Fucking word online out of spite) about stuff like this, but thinking about all the psychological harm this organization would cause to a little boy just looking for a game. It makes me sick.

But in all seriousness, I didn’t even think of what could happen if a kid found this game. A kid’s day could easily be ruined by finding that game and its “bonus video”. Although, when i searched up the terms “pokemon”, “pokemon black”, and “pokemon new game” I could not find black and blue even after searching for a few pages. Still, this was incredibly irresponsible of PETA. Any little kid that loves pokemon could stumble across this game. As far as a remember, the page gives no mature content warning whatsoever, and starting up the game is just a simple button click away. I know PETA only did this to gain attention and be all like “LOOKHOWEDGY WE ARE! WE REALLYCAREABOUTANIMALS!” but this is just plain irresponsible.

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“You probably remember PETA’s recent anti-Pokémon game, Pokémon Black & Blue. Some of you may even remember PETA’s similar stunt in regards to Super Mario 3D Land last year, to which Nintendo left a polite, professional response, prompting PETA to backpedal and claim the whole thing was a joke. However, this time Nintendo seems to have lost its patience with PETA, and rightfully so. In their response to PETA, Nintendo released the following statement.

“Nintendo and the Pokémon company take the inappropriate use of our products and intellectual property seriously.”

It’s a simple statement open to interpretation, and hence we have no idea whether this means Nintendo will take legal action or not. But after multiple cheap attempts to generate publicity, at least three of which involved the ripping off of Nintendo products, I can honestly say I wouldn’t blame them. At the very least, Nintendo’s pithy statement sounds to me like a very irritated one hidden behind a poker face."